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COPE Forum 5 November 2018: Predatory Publishing
Predatory publishing is generally defined as for-profit open access journal publication of scholarly articles without the benefit of peer review by experts in the field or the usual editorial oversight of the journals in question. The journals have no standards and no quality control and frequently publish within a very brief period of time while claiming that articles are peer-reviewed. There… - Event
6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), Hong Kong, 2019
COPE will have a prominent role in four symposia and plenary sessions at the WCRI in Hong Kong, China, 2-5 June 2019. The theme of the conference is "New challenges in research integrity", advancing discussion on key issues such as open data, open access and other moves towards… - News
A PLACE for publishers
Over the past few months we have been working with Crossref, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) to build a hub for publishers with limited resources or little experience, to easily discover resources from each of the… - News
In the news: October 2020
…Publication ethics news October 2020 Each month, COPE Council members find and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on changes in the publishing industry, open access, research integrity, and more. Open access Springer Nature and the Collaborative Open Access Research and Development group studied